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Goodreads asked Martin Smallridge:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Martin Smallridge The idea came a long time ago, but I think the basic impulse to write "The mills kept grinding" came from meetings, workshops I attended while still in high school, with people who had lived through the war and often took part in it as soldiers or were members of various auxiliary services. Also, if not primarily, there were the stories of my father, who fought from the very first day of the war, and of my mother, who was only 11 when the war broke out.

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